literature Courses 2024–2025
Literature courses 2024
We offer a range of live online courses which run weekly or fortnightly. Each course focuses on a particular writer or theme. Each session lasts for two hours, with an hour-long lecture by a leading scholar, followed by a moderated seminar.
• Women Writers of the 1920s course, four fortnightly sessions, 9 January to 20 February 2024. SOLD OUT.
• Jane Austen course: six fortnightly sessions, 14 January to 10 March 2024. SOLD OUT.
• Sylvia Plath course, four weekly sessions, 10 February to 2 March 2024. SOLD OUT.
• Iris Murdoch and Love course, five fortnightly sessions, 7 March to 2 May 2024. SOLD OUT
• George Orwell course, five weekly sessions, 8 April to 6 May 2024.
• Katherine Mansfield course, six weekly sessions, 10 April to 22 May 2024. SOLD OUT
• Close Reading Irish Poets II, two weekly sessions, 28 April to 5 May 2024.
• Literary Gardens course, six weekly sessions, May to June 2024. (Two groups, one on Fridays, one on Sundays)
• Close reading Irish Poets I, two weekly sessions, June 2024
• Lecture for Peace: Women in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. 22 June 2024. Lecture to support peace charities.
• Lecture for Peace: Forster and Empire: A Passage to India. 30 June 2024. Lecture to support peace charities.
• Close Reading Mary Oliver, two weekly sessions, 18 and 25 August 2024
• Live online lecture: Jane Eyre (1847), with Clare Walker Gore, 7 Sept. 2024
• Women and Power in mid-20thC Fiction, four fortnightly sessions, 8 Sept. to 20 Oct. 2024
• London in Literature course, six fortnightly sessions, 18 Sept. to 27 Nov. 2024
• The Contemporary Novel course, six fortnightly sessions, 5 Oct. to 14 Dec. 2024
• Close Reading William Wordsworth, two weekly sessions, 20 and 27 October 2024
• Close Reading Contemporary Poetry, two weekly sessions, 24 November and 1 December 2024 (tbc)
Lectures for peace
Approximately once a year we hold a lecture to raise money for refugee charities. Since 2020, we have donated to Freedom from Torture, Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, and others. In June 2024, we are extending our support to Oxfam Gaza, Standing Together (Palestinian and Jewish peace movement) as well as Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group. All proceedings from these lectures are shared equally between the named charities. Lectures for Peace 2024 page.
From a participant:
Gaura Narayan of New York writes:
Dear Trudi,
I want to thank you and your team at Literature Cambridge for hosting these online sessions during the pandemic. The first one I attended was on George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss as Female Bildungsroman with Clare Walker Gore in October 2020. Thereafter, I attended several other sessions including memorable ones on Siegfried Sassoon with Alison Hennegan and India in Mrs Dalloway and Refugee Tales with you. I have thoroughly enjoyed every single session that I have attended.I hope you will continue to host these even after the pandemic is a thing of the past as they have been enriching and they have put me in touch with people I would never have encountered without these, such as Shaista Tayabali, whose poetry collection Something Beautiful Travels Far I bought and read after sharing a Zoom room with her during your Refugee Tales session.
Literature courses 2025
• Passion and Violence in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy, seven weekly sessions, January-February 2025.
• Iris Murdoch and Art course, 5 sessions, March-May 2025
• Oscar Wilde course, 4 sessions, March-May 2025.
• Doris Lessing: Women and Destiny course 2025 September-October 2025.
• Elizabeth von Arnim: Women, Men and Dogs course, October-December 2025
• London in Literature 2: 1950s-2023, autumn 2025
Live online lectures and seminars via zoom.
More courses for 2024-25 will be added in the coming months
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A list of past online lectures and seasons since May 2020 can be found here.